Medieval 2: Total War Designer Diary #1 - Introducing the New Diplomatic System

[r johnson]

[/QUOTE]These points include the AI faction's military and financial power, its reputation, its relationship with your faction, and anything that the AI is known to be actively seeking from you. After all, there is no point in asking a very poor faction for a lot of money, as that's something that it may not be able to comply with. If that same faction however had lots of military forces, perhaps it could be asked for assistance in a war-- so when you deal with the French diplomatically, you will hear a Frenchman delivering the dialogue.
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I really like the diplomatic side to MTW2, it sounds like it's going to be alot more realistic. Although the idea of accents would be pointless for myself as i don't have any speakers.